Iftikhar Anjum

Pakistan •
34 years old

Rao Iftikhar Anjum

Born on
December 01, 1980 at Khanewal, Punjab

Right Handed Batsman
and Right-arm medium bowler

Teams played for Pakistan, Surrey

Born on 1 December 1980, Rao Iftikhar Anjum remained an integral part of the Pakistan bowling line-up for many a seasons, but failed to make a permanent place for himself in the line-up. Resembling Aa...
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Batting stats

M

Inn

Runs

HS

Avg

SR

NO

100

50

4s

6s

Tests

1

1

9

9

0

23.08

1

0

0

2

0

ODI

62

34

234

32

15.6

61.9

19

0

0

15

3

T20I

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Bowling stats

M

Inn

B

Runs

Wkts

BBI

BBM

Econ

Avg

SR

5W

10W

Tests

1

2

84

62

0

8 / 0

62 / 0

4.43

0

0

0

0

ODI

62

60

2960

2430

77

30 / 5

30 / 5

4.93

31.56

38.44

1

0

T20I

2

2

48

67

1

34 / 1

34 / 1

8.38

67

48

0

0

ICC Rankings

Batting

Current Rank

Career Best

TEST

--

-

ODI

--

-

Bowling

Current Rank

Career Best

TEST

--

-

ODI

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12

-- indicates player not in top 100Rank changes shown are of the last 30 days

Born on 1 December 1980, Rao Iftikhar Anjum remained an integral part of the Pakistan bowling line-up for many a seasons, but failed to make a permanent place for himself in the line-up. Resembling Aaquib Javed in action, Anjum’s strength was his ability to get prodigious swing away from the batsmen.

Despite a glittering FC record, Anjum was strangely bench-marked as an ODI player and managed only one Test, against Sri Lanka in Kandy in 2006.

Anjum’s ODI career was longer though, although he was never guaranteed a permanent place on the team. An honest trier, Anjum made his ODI debut against Zimbabwe in Multan, 2004. Anjum is a good exponent of the reverse swing, an art that is a traditional strength of the Pakistani bowlers and has a mean yorker as well.

His best analysis came against Sri Lanka in August 2009, registering career best figures of 5/30. Ironically he played his last match for Pakistan, an ODI against Australia in Perth just two matches later.